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East Coast Bias Bowl -- Running Super Bowl XLVI Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by MileHigh, Jan 22, 2012.

  1. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Yep. Beat the Cardinals in '48 in a blizzard, one of the more famous NFL championship games of the pre-Super Bowl era. The next year they played the Rams in a monsoon. If there was bad weather to be found in the late 40s, the Eagles were your guys to find it.
    Another Eagles fun fact ... the 1960 title game was the only postseason game Vince Lombardi ever lost.
     
  2. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    I took Denver in that one.
     
  3. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    That 1987 Redskins team was weird. Williams actually started only two games during the regular season. Jay Schroeder was the starter most of the time. Timmy Smith barely touched the ball and gained only 126 yards the entire regular season. Both end up starters in the playoffs and turn in huge Super Bowls, but the real stars of that offense were the receivers and offensive linemen.

    Rypien also had incredible talent around him, but you have to give him credit. He didn't just go along for the ride to that Super Bowl. He threw for 3,564 yards with 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions that season. Sure, having all day to throw and great receivers helped a great deal, but it's not like his job was just to hand off and not screw it up like Dilfer.
     
  4. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Rypien had a couple of good years in 1989 (3,768 yards, 22 TDs, 13 INTs, Pro Bowl selection) and 1992 (3,282 yards, 13 TDs, 17 INTs), but never put it together like he did in '91. That Redskins team was an unlikely beast, with Rypien, past-their-prime RBs Earnest Byner and Gerald Riggs, and an aging receiving corps. A weird lightning in a bottle team.

    Always thought it was an odd quirk, too, that two of Joe Gibbs' three Super Bowl wins came during strike years. Never figured out if that was a mark against him or for him, even if he is a Hall of Fame coach either way.
     
  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Unless you want to count the 1965 Playoff Bowl, which the Packers lost to the Cardinals 24-17. The game was technically for third place in the NFL at the time, although they are now counted as exhibitions.

    In Maraniss' book on Lombardi, the Packers played to win the previous Playoff Bowl in Jan. '64, beating the Browns 40-23. Lombardi was contemptuous of the game, but rationalized that winning wasn't a sometime thing, so the Packers played to win. The next year, Lombardi didn't give a shit, and the Pack lost.
     
  6. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/giants-ahead-themselves-super-bowl-champions-home-page-030550983.html

    Whoops.
     
  7. joe king

    joe king Active Member

    Now they've done it. Put all your money on the Pats!
     
  8. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Why is everyone wearing gray suits?
     
  9. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    I'd like to thank the unseasonably mild weather in Indy this week for sparing us those crybaby columns whining about the SB site that usually accompany every SB held outside Florida or California. God that shit got old.
     
  10. murphyc

    murphyc Well-Known Member

    Loved the story in NBC's pregame show a short time ago about Steve Gleason, though I'm a bit biased since I'm a fellow Coug. ALS is such a cruel disease, especially when it strikes such a great man. No white flags, Steve. Go Team Gleason.
     
  11. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    That was a tough story.
     
  12. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Guess it's OK to pull myself from the Law and Order marathon on TNT. Did I miss anything?
     
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